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"Ta tam t'ing was alife when I raxed 'er out of 'is poke," he said, "but 'er went dead sune after. She can 'ave 'er for a shillin'." He had no idea, nor could I make him understand, what it was and what purpose it served.
I am wrong if I had not before me a man who had not slept a sound night's sleep in his naked bed since the point of war beat under his castle window. "Your arm, my lord " I said in a pause of his conversation with Mlver, "is it a fashious injury? You look off your ordinary." "I do," he said. "I daresay I do, and I wish to God it was only this raxed arm that was the worst of my ailment."
"Man, I'll wager we never see the colour of his face when it comes to close quarters." "I wouldn't wonder," I ventured. "He is in no great trim for fighting, for his arm is " Sir Alasdair gave a gesture of contempt and cried, "Faugh! we've heard of the raxed arm: he took care when he was making his tale that he never made it a raxed leg."
It's twa-three days since the doctor certifiedst him; noo his muscles hae stiffened and raxed him up. Ye mun lay him doon again, Maisters, for I'll no can sleep wi' him glowering that gate. The speaker in the night mutch was the only one of us who seemed unaffected by the extraordinary events we had just witnessed. Her eyes gleamed a trifle more brightly than before. That was the only difference.
'She took her knife to me, growled the wounded man, who had risen to his feet, and showed bleeding fingers. 'Ay, for meddling with a royal falcon, broke in Jean. ''Tis thou, false loon, whose craig should be raxed. Happily this was an unknown tongue to the foresters, and Sir Patrick gravely silenced her. 'Whist, lady, brawls consort not with your rank. Gang back doucely to my leddy.
Weel, the job was settled at last. Cloured crowns were plenty, and raxed necks came into fashion. I dinna mind very weel what I was doing, swaggering about the country with dirk and pistol at my belt for five or six months, or thereaway; but I had a weary waking out of a wild dream.
"Robertson's done up," said he to himself; "thae young lads are aye sae thoughtless. What deevil could he hae to say to Jeanie Deans, or to ony woman on earth, that he suld gang awa and get his neck raxed for her? And this mad quean, after cracking like a pen-gun, and skirling like a pea-hen for the haill night, behoves just to hae hadden her tongue when her clavers might have dune some gude!
Boyd's success in making us see so plainly the moods and manners of the 'restin' ploughman' while he 'daundered' in his garden and 'raxed his limbs' is the more to be enjoyed and praised." PALL MALL GAZETTE. "Followers of the master will appreciate this beautiful book for its accurate interpretation of the poem as well as for its excellent drawing."
Next day my lord the Marquis came round Lochlong and Glencroe in a huge chariot with four wheels, the first we had ever seen in these parts, a manner of travel incumbent upon him because of a raxed shoulder he had met with at Dunbarton.
While the servants admitted the troopers, whose oaths and threats already indicated resentment at the delay they had been put to, Cuddie took the opportunity to whisper to his mother, "Now, ye daft auld carline, mak yoursell deaf ye hae made us a' deaf ere now and let me speak for ye. I wad like ill to get my neck raxed for an auld wife's clashes, though ye be our mither."
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